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Summary: Where it all started
Review: This is without doubt the funniest book written in the English language. You would expect a book written in 1954 by an author who became known as one of the "Angry Young Men" rebelling against the establishment to have dated badly by 1999. As a comedy of manners and social mores it shows its age, but as an example of exactly how to make English usage and style funny it still has no peers anywhere. Biting, savage wit. Read this, and then read Tom Sharpe's best ("Riotous Assembly" for instance) to see where Amis' influence is felt. He succeeds where Wodehouse and Waugh either failed or didn't attempt. YOUR BOOKSHELF ISN'T COMPLETE WITHOUT IT.
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Summary: Funniest book ever written in the English language.
Review: There's nothing more to say. It's simply the funniest book ever written in the English language.
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Summary: Absolutely delightful
Review: Jim is the accidental hero. He reminds me of myself in situations so similar that I could felt those wretched feelings again. While reading it this line by Morrissey kept coming up in my mind, "In my mind, why do I smile at people whom I much rather kick in the eye." The book details Jim's adventures in getting his love but of course via the vile Bertrand and his relations. Absolutely funny! A brilliant comedy in words.
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Summary: funniest book i ever read
Review: Sometimes humor ages. Not this. Lucky Jim is as hysterical as anything currently in print, on film or tv.Please if anybody's ever read a funnier book tell us.
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Summary: What a great book!
Review: When I was in high school I was in an advanced literary course that had selected many great books to read in its syllabus. This book was one we did NOT read in class, I picked this up the summer after, and have read it 4 times since. Absolutely delightfull! This book made me an dedicated Kingsley Amis fan.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Some of the reviews below point out how funny this book is. And it is funny. But it is also a tremendously sophisticated novel (in the best sense of that word), and so I hope some readers will not be turned off by the "funny" tag, thinking LUCKY JIM is nothing more than a Dave Barry type of book full of yucks. Yes, it is a funny novel, but it is also a wonderful LITERARY experience as well.
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Summary: The funniest novel I've read in years.
Review: I picked up this book in the library while looking for Martin Amis' most recent book. It was a lucky day for me. I can't remember the last book that made me laugh out loud like this. Or the last time my husband (who reads very few novels) tore through a book I recommended. A book that has lost neither its wit nor its shrewd commentary since its publication 44 years ago.
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Summary: One of the Funniest Books I've Ever Read
Review: I never laugh out loud while reading, but this book had me in stitches. People were looking at me on the bus... This book will not disappoint you!
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Summary: An educated Mr. Bean
Review: As I read about Jim Dixon's quirks and funny points, from his face-making to the elaborate ruse to hide the cigarette-burned bed coverings, Mr. Bean came to mind. When I discovered, after I finished the book, that Lucky Jim was written in the 1950s, I realized that Mr. Bean is not an anomaly in British humor, but an institution. Actually, Lucky Jim is better than any Mr. Bean episode.
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: While Martin Amis is indulging in egomania, he must know in his heart of hearts, his talent (even though it is formidable) will ever come close to his father's (Kingsley Amis) as is displayed in Kingsley's LUCKY JIM. LUCKY JIM is light and humorous, but has profundity in it, too, and is a brilliant novel. The language is poetic and highly literary, but at the service of the story. A lot of "literary" writing buries the story, (Well, like in Martin Amis's stuff, for instance), but LUCKY JIM has wonderfully poetic sentences, that, even if you did not notice their poetry, serve a reader who would only need the sentences for their furthering of the narrative. There is not a single word wrong in this novel. It's perfect down to the last syllable. And I know I'll read it again sometime, and parts of it numerous times. It's not called a "classic" for nothing.
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